Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix

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Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix
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Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix::Toyota plans to make electric car bodies in the same style as Tesla's "gigacasting." But the resulting EVs might be too hard to repair.

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Increase productivity by 20% will reduce price by?

There is demand for their cars, how would that change through more efficient manufacturing? Remember demand drives price.

However, withing a few decades probably every mamjfacturer will adopt this technique, which will enable them to ask for less to drives sales. Then all manufacturers will have to reduce prices.